Dr Marti Kheel

In memoriam: Marti Kheel

Researchers and students around the world will be deeply saddened to hear of Marti's death on November 19 ... [read more]

Marti Kheel is a prominent writer and activist in the areas of ecofeminism, animal advocacy, and environmental ethics. Her articles have been widely published in journals and anthologies both within the United States and abroad. She co-founded Feminists for Animal Rights in 1982 and holds a doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where she is currently a visiting scholar.

“Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology: Reflections on Identity and Difference” (expanded version), in Carol Robb and Carl Casebolt, eds.,Covenant for a New Creation: Ethics, Religion, and Public Policy. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 1991. Reprinted (revised) in TheTrumpeter: A Journal of Ecosophy 8 (Spring 1991).

“Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology: Reflections on Identity and Difference,” in Irene Diamond and Gloria Orenstein, eds., Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism. San Francisco: Sierra Club Publishers, 1990.

“From Healing Herbs to Deadly Drugs: Western Medicine’s War Against the Natural World,” in Judith Plant, ed., Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1989. Reprinted in The Townshend Letter for Doctors 102 (January 1992) and Alison M. Jaggar, ed., Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. Translated into Japanese by the Japan League for the Abolition of Vivisection. Translated into Chinese by Wu Pei for Environment and Society 3.4 (December 2000).

JOURNAL ARTICLES

“World Day for Laboratory Animals.” Between the Species 3 (August 2003).